Japanese Envoy Continues Talks To Ease Trade Crisis

April 5, 1985|United Press International

WASHINGTON — Japan`s trade envoy, trying to head off protectionist legislation in Congress, sought today to tell U.S. officials of his nation`s side in the increasingly bitter U.S.-Japanese trade dispute.

Reishi Teshima, Japan`s deputy foreign minister for economic affairs, was scheduled to meet today with Commerce Department officials and Rep. Thomas Foley, D-Wash. Later, he was meeting with an Agriculture Department representative and other U.S. trade officials.

Teshima was sent by Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone to explain Japan`s side in its current trade dispute with the United States. Washington wants Japan to open its markets to U.S. goods as much as U.S. markets are open to Japanese products.

Japan has made a series of moves in that direction in recent years, but U.S. officials and members of Congress say it hasn`t been enough.